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Madness reigns in National Assembly

Chief Whip for Democratic Alliance, John Steenhuisen, said South Africa’s National Assembly had become a madhouse under the Zuma administration.

Chief Whip for Democratic Alliance, John Steenhuisen, said South Africa’s National Assembly had become a madhouse under the Zuma administration.

Steenhuisen, speaking during Parliament’s debate on the DA’s call for South Africa to hold an early election, presented Parliamentary colleagues with a long list of reasons to support this motion.

Chief among them was the grip that the Gupta family has on President Jacob and now South Africa’s Treasury. He said Zuma had betrayed his own people, to advance the interests of foreign nationals who continue to snatch opportunities away from poor and desperate South Africans.

“What madness we have witnessed in this House. A President who sold this country to foreigners, who stripped the country, not only of its money and resources, but have snatched away opportunity from the desperate hands of the poor and most vulnerable in our society,” Steenhuisen told members in the National Assembly on Tuesday.

“All the while the President and his family have gotten richer. Obscenely richer. The President of the Republic has sacrificed the future of our nation’s children on the alter of the Guptas, only to selfishly secure his own future,” added Steenhuisen.

This call for the dissolution of Parliament and the holding of an early election has been met with some resistance on opposition benches. Not all opposition parties have bought into the concept.

Steenhuisen made a concerted effort to sway those opinions on Tuesday, highlighting just how dysfunctional the South African government had become. The DA does not believe that this government operates in the interests of the people.

“Our economy has been pushed to breaking point. Thievery by day and maneuvering by night, Finance Ministers pushed out under the cover of darkness,” added Steenhuisen.

“Their high crimes and misdemeanors? Trying to put the economy and the people of South Africa first and to keep the rabid wolves of State Capture away from the doors of he people’s Treasury. A Minister of Finance with no plan whatsoever, to rescue our free-falling economy, other than to slavishly execute like some beaming Lord Baelish, the orders of his Mad King,” he said.

“The irresponsible uncle that we all know, who bets the family home to buy a sports car he knows he cannot afford. Risking it all, he wants to take the sound investment portfolio and throw it into the abyss of SAA.

“Nine-million of our mothers, brothers, sisters and fathers, who do not have the dignity of work, because this government cannot get the basics right, and have a Parliament that does nothing to help them.”